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Title | Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1884. Volume 4. Correspondence, Original, Secretary of State. Despatches: Leeward Islands and Miscellaneous. Foreign Office |
Date | 5 Jan 1884 - 3 Feb 1885 |
Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
Reference | CO 384/151 |
Library / Archive | The National Archives |
Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence. |
Description | Correspondence to and from the Secretary of State for the Colonies regarding the movement of labourers around the Colonies. These letters are particularly concerned with the introduction of Chinese workers into the labour markets in Canada, Hawaii and Africa, as well as the rights held by Indian workers to return passages at the end of their indenture. Other topics include general administration such as staff appointments and wages, emigration schemes for the Irish and details of legislation governing immigration. |
Series Description | This series contains correspondence relating to British settlement in North America and Australasia, and to Indian indentured labour in the West Indies. Until 1857 it consists of domestic letters alone. The series then ceases and is not resumed until 1872. |
Biographical Note / History | A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created in 1840 to undertake the duties of two earlier and overlapping authorities under the supervision of the secretary of state: the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia and the Agent General for Emigration. In 1855 it became the Emigration Commission. The commission's powers were gradually given up to the larger colonies as they obtained self-government, and after 1873 it was responsible only for controlling the importation of Indian labour into sugar-producing colonies. It was abolished in 1878 and an Emigration Department was then set up in the Colonial Office. This department was merged with the General Department in 1894, and abolished altogether in 1896. |
Theme(s) | Remigration; Departures: Port Conditions and Organisation |
Country (from) | Great Britain; Germany; Ireland; Portugal; St Kitts; Nevis; Antigua; St Helena; Jamaica; British Guiana; China; Mexico; United States of America; India |
Country (to) | South Africa; Canada; Gambia; Peru; Cape Verde; Brazil; Singapore; Malaysia; Indonesia; Sri Lanka; St Kitts; Nevis; Antigua; St Helena; Jamaica; British Guiana; China; Mexico; United States of America; India |
Places | Toronto, Ottawa, Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec, Canada; Shantou, Peking, Amoy, China; Honolulu, Hawaii, United States; Azores, Portugal; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Pietermaritzburg, Durban, South Africa; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Labuan, Malaysia |
Ports | Calcutta, India; Natal, South Africa; Hong Kong, China |
Nationality | Siamese; Danish; French; Norwegian; American; Dutch; Spanish; Mexican; Jamaican; Chinese; Indian; Irish; German; English |
Ships | British Peer; Bracadaile; Glücksburg; Piccola |
People | Wingfield, Edward; Earl of Derby (Smith-Stanley, Sir Edward); Herbert, Sir Robert George Wyndham; Ashley, Evelyn; Earl Granville (Leveson-Gower, Granville George); Bulwer, Henry Ernest Gascoyne; Hamilton-Gordon, Arthur |
Keywords | wages, Irish emigration, emigration scheme, hospital, water supply, pauper, destitution, legislation, quarantine, murder, Indian Immigration Law, family, indenture, assisted passage, journey conditions, labour, labourers |
Language | English; Tamil |
Document(s) linked to |
Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1884. Volume 1. Eastern and Australian Despatches Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1884. Volume 2. British Guiana and Trinidad Despatches Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1884. Volume 3. Jamaica and Windward Islands Despatches Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1884. Volume 5. Offices, Companies and Crown Agents Emigration (and Coolie Immigration), 1884. Volume 6. Agents (Except Crown Agents), Individuals and Surgeons |
Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |